New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-05-14
PERSONAL.

A yvcc,t ago Yesterday Mrs. z. 3. Grant was at
tucked with diphthora. For threo days her CORFU
ton was serious, and Dr. Castle, VINO att'h'on nor
REGARDED her recovery a. somewhat doubtful inc
critical period was safely passed. however, anu she
bcoan 20 Improve rapidly. she IL now almost iuly
,cover,r and unless sho has a relapse VIII DO able
10 20 out Of her house early next week
Miss Emma Abbott says she Is the only prima
donna in tho world who sings publicly seven nights
weelg and she can sing three notes higher IMAM unS
other excepting Sombrich'
Iiut gave an amusing account u the manner In
which George sand used hor lovers In fiction after
sh5 had dono with them IN fact First sh9 linus her
bu u rcs" Lo sald "thon she feeds them III her DoA
With grassos aud flowers; this IS the love period
Aftar timo shr sticks PIN Into them' they strusN'
I'm their pan: but she has had enough OF them anu II
now lent on vivlscctlon In the end they VIII Do
preserved "a dried specimens
Tho Rev. DR. Phillips Brooks will conduct praycn
at Harvard during tho remainder Of this month.
There IA 10 ground for the story that Queen Vic
tora has offered Fr5gmoc TO Prirco Henry and Pfin-
cess beatrice for their permanent hone. Tho place
l. damp, unwhoesOmo and quite Impossible 10 u
residence.
Mrs. IAvermoro personally raised most Of the hand
some fund which presented to Mis-. J. Ellen Fos-
ter for her trip abroad
Cardinal Manning Is described by recent visitor
az "welrdiy impressive at night" Wearing his black
cassock and scarlet cap seated By the blazing WOOD
fire in his study in which fifty couples might waltz
with perfect comfort, his Emnonco will discuss any
subject from tho DEGREES of tho Council OF Trent down
10 a paragraph In the society papers. No subject Is
too large topic too small for him to converse up
on IIe is tcctotaller-has been one for years-as
all know; and Just much as viii keep tho ma
chlroTy OF the body properly fabricated and no more
When no was made Cardinal somo seven years ago
como of his flock sent round the hat " enable him 10
nay tho fees (about $1,000 without personally IN
conyenencing himself. II should like TO see your
Emnenco riding In something bettor than that shabby
old brougham," remarked an influential gentleman
"Ablp replied tho great man, with laugh ana i
merry twinkle In his eye, "when Cardinals won't about
in fno carriages they generally went to the DEVIL"
Mr. W. Jennings DemOrest has been speaking re-
comfy mt gospel temperance meetings in tho far West
Tho PincIan Hill ut Rome now bears monument
thus inscribed "Tho neghborng palace once the prop
sry Of tho Medcis, was tho prison Of Calico Gallei'
guilty OF having tho earth pyoNo round inc
sun ;. T.. O. H., MDCCCLXAXNlI."
WASHINGTON, May 13-Mrs. Gibson, the wife OF the
Senator from Louisiana, who has been dangerously III In
this city, was slightly improved today she slept well
last night aud is able to take Dourishment
NEw.HAvEN, May 13.-It is announced that ex-con-
gresham John Randolph Tucker Of Lexington, Va Will
deliver the Grafton before tho graduating class OF inc
Yale Law School, on June 70, next